SOLD! To the man completely disgusted with the indefinite detention provisions of American citizens without due process...1 copy of the Washington State legislation punting NDAA FY 2012 proviso's back to the District of Columbia. SEE HERE: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2759

Waking Up Orwell's annual visit with Paper's Please's Edward Hasbrouk goes over Pan-American travel, border policy and what you can do about TSA's "naughty" lists this Holiday Season. This includes your travel documents, managing your expectation of a grope-worthy experience on US domestic flights and finding out where all your travel data is lodging this Christmas! Buckle your seatbelts, put away the tray tables and get your sick bags ready - it's going to be a turbulent ride.

Why does a bush begin to die once a smart meter is installed next to it? Note the off-the-chart intensity of the pulses - all smart meter videos show the same thing, yet the FCC only requires the utilities and smart meter companies to report the averaged intensity over 30 minutes. However, our bodies and brains absorb the intense pulses. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsuP_WBBr2c&feature=related

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People are turning on their computers to seek out Occupy Together gatherings to help represent their own interests in the economic breakdown. #OccupyTogether, organized by GlobalRevolution.es, is helping many find ways to talk back to Wall St and the US government by inviting the voices of those harmed by the economic downturn. They are not happy with D.C. They are not happy with Wall Street's financial institutions.

In this report, many gievances are cited for too much corporate involvement with the government sector and too much government involved with the private sector.

We attended Occupy Seattle to hear the stories and the voices of those in attendance. We also asked a few people right around the corner their opinion of current events and the protests.

"The arrest of hundreds of tired and unwashed kids, denied the freedom of a bullhorn, and the right to protest on public streets, may well be the first real green-shoots of this, the American spring. And if nurtured right, it could well begin real change."

HR 2885, the Legal Worforce Act bill would mandate all US workers submit SSN#s and record identity information in a web-based cloud system administered by USCIS (DHS).

Orly Taitz road tested E-Verify with what is believed to be President Obama's SSN#. Dr. Taitz claims that President Obama has presented fraudulent identity documents and demands accountability from the White House. She presents the case that E-Verify can deidentify the United States President if his SSN# is fraudulent.

We ask her about the integrity of the E-Verify technology and her end goal in deidentifying the US President.

We follow Orly's statements with our own brand of analysis of The Legal Workforce Act. We analyze the nature of President Obama identity submissions to the Birther movement (overidentification), and stoke a call to action.

SPOILER ALERT: You can make Numbers USA very angry by feeding your family.

Adrian Wyllie, the Chair for the Libertarian Party of Florida, has become a burr in the side of the Pinellas County criminal justice system. His offense? Driving without a Real ID certified license in the State of Florida. After over 2 months public provocation, the sheriffs department issued a citation.

Wyllie had his day in court- the results should surprise anyone. We are joined in a discussion with Mr. Wyllie over these current events.

The legal battle over Real ID certified licenses in the State of Florida will continue to be challenged in a recently sponsored Tallahassee based legislation, HB 109 (R-Larry Ahern).

LAS VEGAS- The (r)evolution of privacy in technology was tweeted tonight at the Develop 4 Privacy awards at the DEFCON 19 hacker conference in Las Vegas.

3rd Place went to Obscuracam (Guardian Project), 2nd place to tiqr (https://tiqr.org/), an open source authenticator, and the 1st prize award to Gibberbot (Guardian Project). The winning applications were developed using the principles of Privacy by Design.

One of the winning developers, Harlo Holmes, Guardian Project's mobile app developer for the Android platform, spoke with us about Obscuracam, Gibberbot and her DEFCON experience. Holmes, a Facebook early adopter, talks about what the winning apps do to protect privacy, social networks and the societal goals at the Guardian Project. Privacy by Design policies and best practices are fast becoming the most resilient way to reinforce privacy values for technologies in the marketplace.

"The Develop for Privacy challenge is a great way to raise awareness for principles of privacy by design at a developer and code level. Far too many developers think about putting their user in control of their data after the fact. By encouraging privacy from the start, we're raising awareness of how to design for privacy," said Andrew Lewman of the Tor Project.

Contestants' apps were judged based on effectiveness, the quality of user documentation, source code, originality, portability, and performance. The DEFCON event judges were veteran privacy scholars and analysts who awarded priority to the protection of daily online chats & instant messaging and the first place win to Gibberbot.

“This app demonstrates that advances in consumer technology don’t need to come at the expense of privacy, said Nicole Ozer, with event sponsor, ACLU of Northern California and the Demand Your dotRights campaign. “We’re hopeful that companies will start to bake in better privacy protections so that users don’t have to choose between using smartphones and keeping control of their private information.”

Winning developers won't walk away with a lot of prizes, but their technologies will be among the most recognised and supported examples of Privacy by Design in the industry. In fact, their apps will an open source download for most users.

Harlo Holmes, who was given a jacket by presenters, described her win for privacy as,"priceless".

BTC - A new house bill sponsored by Rep. Bishop (R-UT) would allow a DHS policy waiver of 36 federal laws to construct US border fences to become law. The National Security and Federal Lands Protection bill would change border definitions, expanding the reach of federal border enforcement 100 miles inland from coast to coast.

From the bill:

(c) CLARIFICATION RELATING TO WAIVER AUTHORITY.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other

provision of law (including any termination date re-lating to the waiver referred to in this subsection),the waiver by the Secretary of Homeland Securityon April 1, 2008, under section 102(c)(1) of the Ille-gal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsi-bility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note; Public Law104–208) of the laws described in paragraph (2)with respect to certain sections of the internationalborder between the United States and Mexico andbetween the United States and Canada shall be con-sidered to apply to all sections of the internationalland and maritime borders of the United Stateswithin 100 miles of the international land and mari-time borders of the United States for the activitiesof the Secretary of Homeland Security described insubsection (b), including the construction of infra-structure, to achieve the operational control de-scribed in subsection (a).

We discuss events at the bill’s Introduction hearing and the US border with Scott Nicol with No Border Wall Fence Coalition.

Podcast Summary

Waking Up Orwell is a radio news and public affairs program about less known government actions and tax expenditures supportive of globalized power brokering, secret government abuses, global privacy and the surveillance state.
We discuss what leads to negative effects on U.S. citizens locally and nationally in a fresh talk radio format. Some of the issues we cover are: public surveillance, developments with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, agitation of border conflicts, federal emergency management, homeland security, prison and police policy, civil liberties, electronic privacy, unlawful search and seizure and keeping tabs on “continuity of government”.
Waking Up Orwell is a weekly radio digest of news reported on BeatTheChip.org - a blog dedicated to informing anyone concerned about being wiretapped, hacked, or catalogued without legal consent by the U.S. government.